Seminars

Last year, Paul Gilbert, from Manchester University Tyndall Centre, asked Elizabeth about how DEMAND was conceptualising energy. Elizabeth had no real idea how to reply. (more…)

DEMAND Double Bill seminar from two DEMAND visitors: Heather’s talk focused on the relation between crisis and normality – in terms of energy demand.  She introduced a catalogue of questions about this relationship.   (more…)

In brief, Ted's argument was this:  there is a tendency to equate a focus on social practices with a focus on the small scale, and with fine grained ethnographic research.   In contrast Ted argued that there is no reason why theories of practice should not provide compelling and persuasive accounts of ‘large’ scale social phenomena – including markets, forms of governance, and big…

Michael took us through some of the fundamentals of adding words to the beginning of disciplinary – multi, inter, trans – in order to then consider the ways in which forms of transdisciplinarity (meaning extending beyond disciplines to work with others outside of academia) and co-production of research can be achieved. (more…)